Trauma Finds Love | Eddie Munson

Chapter 20

Juliet Harrington

The next morning, the sun hit my face. I slowly opened my eyes and looked around. So it wasn't a dream. Man.

"Hey...you're awake."

I looked up and saw Eddie. I nodded and sat up straight. My hair wasn't wet anymore. I was all dried up now but I was still traumatized. I sighed shakily and zoned out. I didn't say a word back.

I looked up when I saw Eddie stand up. He looked down at me and gave me a small smile. I smiled back but it was probably the tiniest smiled I've ever given anyone.

"I'm going to find a way to get a new walkie. Ours got soaked and we need to find a way to get back to the others." I furrowed my eyesbrows at him.

"Where are you going to get another one?"

"There are construction people down over there. They probably have something." He explained. I nodded again. He then hopped off, leaving me alone. I noticed Eddie's leather jacket was wrapped around me and smiled to myself.

He had such a warm presence to give. One of the many things I loved about him. I sat in silence as I waited for him to come back.

After a while he came back with a walkie in his hand. He sat down next to me and waved it around. "Got it." I rolled my eyes and he figured out how to use it. Since it was different than the ones we always used.

He managed to turn it on and spoke in it. "Dustin? Can you hear me? Wheeler?" He asked hoping and praying that someone would hear us this time.

I moved over to sit closer to him and layed my head on his shoulder.

"Eddie, holy shit. Are you guys okay?"

Eddie balled his fist up and dmiled slightly. He rubbed his eye before turning the walkie back on. "Nah, man. Pre-pretty goddamn far from okay."

"Where are you guys?"

"Skull Ruck. Uh, do you know it?"

"Yeah that's near um...Cornwallis and-"

I heard someone speak from the other side of the walkie, interrupting Dustin.

"Hang tight. We're coming. We're coming."

Eddie didn't answer and just squinted his eyes and nodded as if they could see us. He seemed so scared, stressed...it genuinely broke me. I grabbed his hand and squeezed it.

He looked at me and squeezed it back before leaning his head back on the boulder. This whole situation was stressful. Eddie was wanted for a murder he didn't even commit. Jason now knows I was with Eddie this whole time and knew where he was. We're now sitting by a huge rock in the middle of a forest not knowing what to do.

At least we were with each other. With now shared trauma. We sat in silence for a moment before I finally decided to speak up. "I'm hungry."

He looked at me and a smile grows on his face. "You always are." He chuckles. I frown at him. "Are you calling me fat?" His eyes widened as he looked back at me "Woah, no. I never said that I didn't mean it in that way."

I laughed and patted his thigh. "Relax. I'm just messing with you. Unless you actually think I'm fat." I raised my eyebrow at him teasingly.

He chuckled and shook his head. "I would never." I smiled at him and looked down. "I'd hope not." I sighed and started fiddling with my ring on my middle finger.

"Do you even care?" Eddie randomly asked out of the blue. I was confused by the random question so I looked at him. "Care? About what?"

Eddie looked at me and into my eyes. But it wasn't the usual calming vibe he gave. His eyes looked almost dark. "It hasn't even been a year. And it seems that you've already moved on...to me."

I frowned slightly, remembering Billy. I mean sure it sort of made sense but I was getting better. Sure, his death still hurt but it was bound to happen. I was bound to move on.

"I'm taking your no answer as a yes." Eddie said. I looked at him. "No, it's not that. It's just...y'know I just think it's time to move on." I looked back down at the grass.

I heard him scoff from next to me. "So what? You just might as well call what we have being a rebound for you losing Billy, huh?" I slightly flinched when I heard his name. What's gotten into him?

"Eddie, you know it's not like tha-" I looked up but it wasn't Eddie anymore. It was Billy. No, no, no.

"You really moved on from me that easily, huh?" I heard his deep voice said. He looked just like I remembered him from that night. The blood on his shirt, his face, his messy hair.

"No, Billy. You know that's not true." I said as I felt tears start pricking my eyes. I knew it wasn't Billy. My Billy died almost a year ago. There was no way this was him.

I stood up from the spot on the ground he was sitting on and towered over me. He started walking towards me and I got up out of instinct and walked backwards as he walked towards me.

"You found it so easy to forget me. To move on. When all I ever did for you, was love you. And yet you found it so easy to move on from me to a freak?!" He practically shouted as he walked towards me.

Tears had started leaving my eyes as I walked backwards. I only managed to shake my head and let out a small sob. "Billy that's not true. I loved you!" I said with a scared tone.

"That's not true! If it were true, you would've saved me!" I only felt my body keep walking backwards as he shouted at me. "I couldn't do anything!"

"So that's why you just watched! As I died, you just stood there with Max not even trying to stop me!" More sobs left my mouth and out of nowhere he reached to grab my wrist.

He grabbed it with a very firm and tight grip. It hurts. "Billy, let me go you're hurting me." I whispered. I wish I hadn't said that because he only tightened his grip on my wrist.

"You really are just a fake wannabe perfect little princess. You really are just a selfish being who never cared about snyone besides yourself!" I started to try to free my hand from his grip.

"Billy, let me go!" I shouted. Yeah, he did let me go, but I fell on my back. I groaned and sat up but once I lifted my gaze it wasn't Billy. It wasn't Eddie. It was Vecna.

Guess I am still cursed. And my time has come. Because I have no clue how to beat the curse and no way to escape.

a/n: hello everyone. im still alive but afraid i have pneumonia 🤭 (i just wanna be part of your symphony) anyways our juliet is on danger 👏🏼 but we'll make it. at least for now 🫣

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